Mon Oncle
Mr Hulot takes a precious, playful ... and purely premeditated look at modern times ...
Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.
- 7.4
- 1958
- Released
- 1h 58m
Jean-Pierre Zola
Monsieur Arpel
Adrienne Servantie
Madame Arpel
Lucien Frégis
Monsieur Pichard
Betty Schneider
Betty, Landlord's Daughter
Jean-François Martial
Walter
Dominique Marie
Neighbor
Yvonne Arnaud
Georgette, the HousekeeperAdelaide Danieli
Madame Pichard
Alain Bécourt
Gérald ArpelRégis Fontenay
Braces DealerClaude Badolle
RagmanMax Martel
Drunken Man
Nicolas Bataille
Working Man
Jean-Claude Rémoleux
Client in Monsieur Arpel's Factory (uncredited)
Denise Péronne
Mademoiselle Fevrier (uncredited)
Nicole Regnault
Short-sighted motorist (uncredited)
Édouard Francomme
House Painter (uncredited)René Lord
(uncredited)
Released
fr
- #factory worker
- #paris, france
- #parent child relationship
- #city portrait
- #modernity
- #new building
- #brother-in-law
- #suburb
- #housekeeper
- #sarcastic
Reviews
Back in the day when it was very de rigueur to live in an home with all the mod cons we meet la famille “Arpel”. Monsieur (Jean-Pierre Zola) has a managerial job at a plastics factory and that’s keeping his slightly snobbish wife (Adrienne Servantie) in the style to which she has already become accustomed. In the nearby city lives her brother “Hulot” (Jacques Tati) whose home barely has plumbing a